Advanced Composite Biomaterials

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in biomedical engineering, which has to respond to more and more challenges, in particular related to changes in lifestyle and environmental factors. If two or three decades ago this domain was limited to a small number of applications, there are now a number of niche domains such as tissue engineering, polymeric materials for osteointegration, artificial organs, devices for the controlled release of drugs and the new materials must respond to all the challenges that have arisen. Among the new synthesized materials, one can distinguish the composites with carbon or graphite nanotubes, the filler having both the role of refining and improvement of some properties such as conductivity, adsorption or release of various substances capacities. The present Special Issue is dedicated to composite biomaterials with carbon nanotubes or graphene applicable in tissue engineering, osteointegration etc. The domains addressed by this issue are:

• Polymer-carbon nanotube composite biomaterials;
• Polymer-graphene composite biomaterials;
• Ceramic-carbon nanotubes composite biomaterials;
• Applications of carbon-nanotube composite biomaterials;
• Applications of graphene composite biomaterials;
• Characterization methods for carbon nanotube composite biomaterials;
• Characterization methods for graphene composite biomaterials.

Prof. Stefan Ioan Voicu
Prof. Marian Miculescu
Guest Editors

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